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00:00But because of all this secrecy, many made up their own minds a long time ago about Area 51,
00:05and that's why it may never lose its extraterrestrial excitement.
00:11Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're looking at the greatest secrets
00:15and mysteries from all over the world that will likely remain secret forever.
00:19Many of the founding fathers, especially the influential ones,
00:23people like George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, were Freemasons.
00:30Man of the Hole
00:31He was the last survivor of a genocide in a region of an extreme violent region.
00:37Deep in Brazil's Amazon rainforest lived the Man of the Hole,
00:41the last member of an uncontacted indigenous tribe.
00:44His nickname came from the deep holes he dug.
00:46They were often filled with spikes, suggesting that they were for hunting or self-defense.
00:51It's believed that settlers and ranchers hired gunmen
00:53to kill the rest of his people starting in the 1970s.
00:56The rights of indigenous people must be recognized and their land protected.
01:02Our hole digger was the sole survivor, choosing to live in complete isolation for decades.
01:07He resisted all attempts at contact, becoming a symbol of indigenous resilience.
01:11To this day, many elements of his existence are shrouded in mystery.
01:15What was his name? What language did he speak?
01:18What was the true purpose of the holes?
01:20In August 2022, he was found dead in his hut,
01:23and as such, the answers to these queries died with him.
01:28Attila the Hun's chat with Pope Leo I
01:30Leo's reign took place during a period marred by numerous heresies and turmoil.
01:35It was the year 452 CE,
01:38and the seemingly unstoppable army of Attila the Hun had advanced into Italy.
01:42Pope Leo I, desperate to protect Rome,
01:44set out for a private meeting with Attila near Mantua.
01:47Legend has it that a vision of Saints Peter and Paul armed with swords appeared there.
01:51In truth, we will never know exactly what was discussed.
01:55We do know that after this meeting, Attila spared Rome from assault.
01:58Three years later, he confronted the vandals in the same manner
02:02when they showed up on Rome's doorstep.
02:04Did Leo frighten Attila with the power of religion and superstition?
02:07Or was persuasion unnecessary thanks to Attila's logistical challenges?
02:11Did he bribe the warlord with treasure?
02:14Whether it was politics, pragmatism, or fear of divine retribution,
02:17Attila retreated and Leo gained a reputation as a persuasive leader.
02:22The Paternity of Caesarion
02:30In 47 BCE, Queen Cleopatra gave birth to a boy, Ptolemy XV.
02:36The young king was also known by another name, Caesarion.
02:39Cleopatra flaunted him as Caesar's heir,
02:41and the emperor acknowledged the boy as his own when she brought him to Rome three years later.
02:46After Caesar's assassination, Cleopatra fled back to Egypt with her son in tow,
02:50where he was declared co-ruler of Egypt.
03:06At the time, many Roman contemporaries cast doubt on Caesarion's true lineage.
03:10We will never know whether Caesarion was the true-born heir to Rome,
03:14or if those doubts were part of a political plot.
03:16We do know that Caesar's adopted son Octavian saw Caesarion as a threat to his claim.
03:21Octavian had his brother assassinated in 30 BCE.
03:25The Voynich Manuscript
03:33Imagine a book that's part botanical guide,
03:35part astrological manual, and part complete and utter mystery.
03:38The Voynich Manuscript, carbon-dated to the early 15th century, is a 240-page enigma.
03:44The images spark the imagination, but no one's sure what they mean.
03:49It's filled with both bizarre illustrations and text in an undeciphered script.
03:53Discovered by rare book dealer Wilfred Voynich in 1912,
03:56it has since baffled cryptographers, linguists, and scholars alike.
04:01Some believe it's a medieval cipher.
04:03Others think it's an elaborate hoax.
04:04Despite numerous claims of cracking its code,
04:07the manuscript's true meaning remains elusive.
04:09Is it an ancient herbal?
04:11A secret alchemical text?
04:12Or the Dungeons and Dragons manual of the Middle Ages?
04:15Until someone deciphers it,
04:17the Voynich Manuscript keeps its secrets close,
04:19inviting both fascination and frustration.
04:33The Princes in the Tower
04:37Two young princes vanished without a trace, and England was never the same.
04:51In 1483, Edward V and his younger brother Richard of Shrewsbury were locked away in
04:56the Tower of London by their uncle Richard III.
04:58Officially, they were awaiting Edward's coronation.
05:01Instead, their uncle took the throne and the boys vanished from the Tower without a trace.
05:07In what was then called the Garden Tower,
05:09rechristened the Bloody Tower,
05:11for the dark murders believed to have taken place within its walls.
05:15Their bodies are lost to history.
05:17Centuries later, bones were discovered in the tower.
05:20Without DNA confirmation that they belonged to the brothers,
05:23their fate remains a mystery.
05:25Recently, another clue emerged.
05:27A chain belonging to Edward V was found in the will of Lady Margaret Capel,
05:31a relative of an alleged accomplice to their murder.
05:34This discovery strengthens the theory that Richard III ordered their murders.
05:48The Bay of Jars
05:50In the 1980s, treasure hunter Robert Marks made a startling discovery,
05:54one that promised to upend history as we know it.
05:57He discovered Roman amphorae, or ancient jars, beneath Brazil's Guanabara Bay.
06:02This find suggested that Romans might have somehow reached South America before any other European.
06:07A Brazilian businessman, Americo Santarelli, claimed ownership of the jars.
06:11He said that in the 1960s, he had commissioned replicas of Roman amphorae
06:15and submerged them in the bay to achieve an aged, barnacle-encrusted appearance.
06:19The mystery, though, is further complicated.
06:21The jars were examined by a classics expert from MIT who confirmed their authenticity.
06:26Without permission by the government to excavate the site,
06:29we'll never know whether the Romans truly made it to Brazil.
06:33Havana Syndrome
06:43Since 2016, U.S. diplomats and intelligence officers from postings around the world,
06:48starting with Cuba, have reported mysterious symptoms.
06:51This combination of dizziness, headaches, and cognitive issues has since been dubbed Havana Syndrome.
07:00began experiencing similar, unexplained symptoms.
07:03The true cause remains elusive.
07:05Some experts suggest mass psychogenic illness,
07:08where stress and fear manifest as physical symptoms.
07:11Others propose environmental factors like exposure to pesticides or malfunctioning surveillance equipment.
07:16A 2022 report by the Director of National Intelligence offered mixed findings.
07:21It found that pulsed electromagnetic energy and ultrasound were plausible causes for some cases,
07:26while psychogenic factors could explain others.
07:29Despite extensive investigations, no definitive cause has been identified.
07:34New technology is helping us more quickly
07:36and thoroughly evaluate a variety of potential causes of these incidents,
07:40and we've distributed across posts so that we can respond rapidly to new reports.
07:44The Habsburg Napkin Fold
07:46The Habsburg Napkin Fold, also known as the Imperial Napkin Fold,
07:50is a closely guarded secret within Austrian tradition.
07:53The napkin, when complete, resembles both a bishop's hat and a fleur-de-lis.
07:57This intricate fold has been a hallmark of Austrian state banquets
08:00since the Habsburgs ruled Austria.
08:02Only two individuals at any given moment are entrusted
08:05with the knowledge of this folding technique.
08:07The method is passed down orally,
08:09with each custodian selecting and instructing a successor before their death.
08:12Despite public displays of the folded napkin in museums
08:15and numerous attempts to replicate it,
08:17the authentic technique remains elusive.
08:20People have attempted to replicate it,
08:21but the exact procedure is still a mystery.
08:24What Happened to Jimmy Hoffa?
08:26And jubilant Jimmy Hoffa sweeps in as new president of the Teamsters.
08:30Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance is the mafia mystery that just won't die.
08:34On July 30th, 1975,
08:36the former Teamsters boss vanished from a Detroit parking lot.
08:40Was he meeting with mobsters?
08:41Did he live happily ever after?
08:43Definitely not.
08:44Tracking Hoffa's downfall takes you through a web of corruption,
08:48betrayal, and in the end, murder.
08:50Hoffa was officially declared dead in 1982,
08:53but no body was ever found.
08:55Over the years, rumors of his fate have circulated.
08:58Some claimed he was buried in one of a series of strange locations.
09:02Others say he was dissolved in acid or encased in cement.
09:05The FBI has conducted countless searches,
09:07including one as recently as 2022.
09:16Hoffa remains missing.
09:17With his mob ties and countless enemies,
09:20it's likely we'll never know the full truth.
09:23Diego Garcia
09:25Take a peek inside Diego Garcia's mysterious island.
09:29Diego Garcia, a remote island in the Indian Ocean,
09:32has a long, complicated history.
09:34Discovered by the Portuguese in 1512,
09:37it spent decades as a French leper colony and coconut plantation.
09:40Most recently under UK control,
09:42it's been a pivotal US military base
09:45and is known as the footprint of freedom for its shape,
09:48regional location, and strategic importance.
09:51Its location makes it invaluable to Middle East operations
09:54and as an alleged submarine base.
09:57Beyond its strategic value,
09:58the island is also shrouded in controversy.
10:01The native Shagoshan inhabitants were forcibly removed in the 1970s
10:05to make way for military installations.
10:11In the last few decades,
10:12reports have surfaced alleging its use as a CIA black site
10:16for detaining and interrogating terror suspects.
10:18Access to the island is incredibly restricted,
10:21and the public will never know what truly happens there.
10:25Metro 2
10:26You may have heard about the British Shadow Cabinet,
10:29but have you heard of a Russian shadow subway?
10:31Rumors have swirled for almost a century about Metro 2,
10:34a secret subway running parallel to the Moscow Metro.
10:38Codenamed D-6 by the KGB,
10:40this clandestine network was allegedly built during the rule of Joseph Stalin.
10:44It lacks public entrances but could be used as a shelter
10:47in the event of an aerial assault on Moscow.
10:50In times of crisis,
10:51while panicked civilians crowd onto the public metro,
10:54government officials could easily escape the city
10:56using the trains in Metro 2,
10:58which are supposedly battery-powered.
11:00Despite widespread speculation,
11:02the Russian government has never acknowledged the system's existence,
11:05nor officially released any details of its function.
11:09The Lost Recipe for Greek Fire
11:11Centuries before Oppenheimer created a superweapon by splitting the atom,
11:15the Byzantine Empire ruled the Mediterranean with a superweapon of their own.
11:20A mysterious substance that, when ignited, burns bright and hot.
11:24Known as Greek fire,
11:25this formidable tool has somehow eluded a concrete definition,
11:29with some simply referring to it as liquid fire
11:32that could never be extinguished by water.
11:34The recipe for this weapon was held as a closely guarded secret,
11:37and with it, the Byzantium resisted Muslim conquests for centuries.
11:42Streams of flame shoot out from Byzantine vessels,
11:46lighting the water on fire and incinerating the Arab ships.
11:50The danger of tightly held secrets is that they can easily be forgotten.
11:54By the Fourth Crusade,
11:55the Eastern Roman Empire lost the recipe,
11:58and was ultimately annihilated in the subsequent centuries.
12:01Though historians and chemists have tried to recreate the recipe,
12:04they have never been successful.
12:17Tesla's Missing Papers
12:19History buffs may know about the rivalry between Nikola Tesla
12:29and Thomas Edison in the nascent days of electrical power.
12:32But did you know that after his death in 1943,
12:35some of Tesla's research mysteriously disappeared?
12:38Tesla was allegedly working on particle beam weapons that,
12:41if successful, could have altered the outcome of World War II.
12:45The day after his death,
12:46his nephew, the Yugoslavian ambassador to the US,
12:49discovered that his notebook and many crucial documents were missing.
12:53As the FBI didn't trust Tesla's nephew with his sensitive research,
12:56they later confiscated all of the scientist's items.
13:04Although some of Tesla's work was returned to his family years later,
13:08a significant portion of it has never been found.
13:11Oliver Cromwell's Head
13:20Oliver Cromwell was a leading parliamentarian
13:23during the British Civil Wars of the 17th century,
13:26seizing control of the nation through a military coup.
13:29Cromwell ruled as Lord Protector for five years before dying of natural causes.
13:34Shortly after his death, the monarchy regained authority.
13:37King Charles II then ordered the exhumation of Cromwell's body
13:40so he could be posthumously executed.
13:43Cromwell's head was removed afterwards
13:45and put on display in London for at least two decades.
13:48Over the next three centuries,
13:50it passed between private collectors of creepy historical objects,
13:53occasionally giving rise to fake replicas.
13:56The authorities were certainly aware that people's heads,
14:00traitors' heads could become objects of veneration.
14:03In fact, Cromwell himself had authorized
14:06Charles I's head to be re-sewn and reattached to his body.
14:10The final owner decided to secretly bury the head
14:13on the campus of Sydney Sussex College, which Cromwell attended.
14:17Its exact location there remains unknown.
14:21Copper Scroll Treasure
14:22When scholars finally revealed the contents of the Copper Scroll in June 1956,
14:28it caused excitement around the globe.
14:31In the 1940s and 50s, archaeologists found a treasure trove
14:35of ancient Jewish manuscripts in the Qumran caves of the West Bank.
14:39Collectively, they became known as the Dead Sea Scrolls.
14:42One of these manuscripts was different from the others,
14:45inscribed on copper plates instead of parchment and papyrus.
14:48This unique document, referred to as the Copper Scroll,
14:52not only differed in its material but also in its content.
14:55It's an ancient treasure map, listing 64 locations of buried jewels and gold.
15:00Written out in 12 columns, it's a verbal treasure map.
15:0412 columns, over 60 plus locations.
15:07Unfortunately, the map is outdated by about 2,000 years.
15:10Treasure hunters and archaeologists have tried to find
15:13the modern locations of these ancient sites.
15:15To this day, no treasure has ever been discovered.
15:19Letters of Last Resort
15:21This is the stuff that spy movies are made of.
15:24Belonging to the United Kingdom, the Letters of Last Resort
15:27are exclusively written by the newly appointed Prime Minister.
15:30Four different letters are penned, which are then given to four submarines
15:34equipped with destructive Trident missiles.
15:36Within the letters are instructions telling the commanding officers
15:39what to do in the event of a nuclear strike on Britain.
15:43No one but the Prime Minister knows the exact contents of the letters,
15:47as they're kept sealed until nuclear war breaks out.
15:50In the event that nuclear war doesn't break out, which thankfully it hasn't,
15:54the letters are destroyed upon the inauguration of a new PM.
15:58Taj Mahal or Tejo Mahalia
16:00In 1989, historian P.N. Oak stirred controversy with his book
16:04Taj Mahal, The True Story.
16:06In it, Oak opposed the majority of historians and scientists
16:10who believed the structure was built in the 17th century,
16:13instead contending that it was actually constructed in 1155.
16:17Also, contrary to its designation as a tomb,
16:19Oak claimed that the building was originally a Hindu temple.
16:23According to him, Shiva worshippers had constructed it and called it Tejo Mahalia.
16:27Oak even filed a petition demanding that the Taj Mahal be declared a Hindu monument,
16:32but it was dismissed by India's Supreme Court in 2000.
16:35In recent years, with the rise of online conspiracies,
16:38the theory has become a rallying cry for Hindu nationalists.
16:55The Coca-Cola Recipe
16:57Coca-Cola has been around since 1886, and try as desperately as they might,
17:03no one has been able to replicate its distinct taste.
17:06That's how you know you have a good beverage on your hands.
17:21Inventor John S. Pemberton kept his recipe a secret,
17:24and even refused to write it down for fear of people copying his success.
17:28It was finally jotted down when Ernest Woodruff purchased the company in 1919.
17:37But not the secrecy.
17:38The physical recipe then made the rounds between New York's Guaranteed Bank,
17:42Atlanta's Trust Company Bank, and finally the world of Coca-Cola,
17:46which is where it resides today.
17:48It is currently housed in the so-called Vault of the Secret Formula,
17:52and it remains a very closely guarded trade secret.
18:04The World's Greatest Card Trick
18:06David Berglas was a mentalist and magician who gained notoriety in the 1950s,
18:10particularly for his iconic trick known as the Berglas Effect.
18:20For this deceptively simple feat,
18:22Berglas would produce a seemingly ordinary deck,
18:24and ask a spectator to name any playing card.
18:27Another person would then pick a random number from 1 to 52.
18:31By the time the cards were dealt one by one,
18:33the specified card would be found at the specified position.
18:36It's a trick that stumped and astounded other magicians for years.
18:46However, Berglas maintained that it was unteachable,
18:49and he took the secret to his grave in 2023.
18:52This covert technique is now widely considered the holy grail of card magic.
18:57The Origins of HIV-AIDS
18:59Some nurses feared this unknown, unnamed disease so much
19:02they wouldn't even go near someone with AIDS.
19:05The fear was pervasive.
19:07While HIV is largely linked to the 1980s,
19:10it remains a global public health issue.
19:12In 2020 alone, it was estimated that nearly 40 million people
19:16were living with the disease.
19:1870% live in Sub-Saharan Africa.
19:22But antiretroviral drugs offer hope.
19:24New infections are down by over a third.
19:27Mother-to-child transmission has more than halved,
19:30and globally, there's been a 35% decrease in deaths.
19:34But regardless of its prevalence and very public history,
19:37there is still a lot about the retrovirus we don't know.
19:40Even those of us who were in it from day one
19:42were shocked by the enormity of the problem.
19:47For example, humanity is still mostly unsure of where it came from.
19:52The leading theory is that African hunters in the early 20th century
19:55killed and ate chimpanzees infected with SIV,
19:59the S standing for simian,
20:01which then mutated into HIV in the human body.
20:04However, this information is typically populated
20:06with words like probably and likely,
20:09indicating that the origins of HIV are not definitively known,
20:13even to this day.
20:15The Farmer's Almanac Formula
20:17Wow, listen to this.
20:18We are in for a brutal winner.
20:20That's according to the Farmer's Almanac.
20:22Farmer's Almanac has been annually published since 1818,
20:26so it's obviously doing something right.
20:28The Almanac makes long-term weather predictions in North America,
20:31and various scientific studies have proven a roughly 50% rate of accuracy.
20:36So basically take this with a grain of salt.
20:39Not bad, considering the predictions come up to two years in advance,
20:42and it seems like the local weather station
20:45doesn't even know if it'll rain tomorrow.
20:46And according to their website,
20:48they use an exclusive mathematical and astronomical formula
20:52that relies on sunspot activity,
20:54tidal action,
20:55planetary position,
20:56and many other factors.
20:58Weirdly, almost nothing is known about the making of the Almanac.
21:01The forecaster is kept secret,
21:03and the Almanac itself has never revealed how it makes its predictions.
21:07The formula is reportedly kept inside an impenetrable box,
21:11and the world is left wondering
21:13just how the heck these gods can so accurately predict the weather.
21:17It's kind of like the Coca-Cola recipe.
21:19The Roanoke Colony
21:20The first English attempt to colonize the New World
21:24took place on the island of Roanoke in 1585.
21:27It failed due to a lack of food and clashes with indigenous peoples.
21:31Two years later,
21:32John White made another effort,
21:33establishing a larger settlement.
21:35White left his settlers there,
21:37hoping to come back with supplies the following year,
21:40but his return was delayed until 1590.
21:43But Governor White doesn't return to his family.
21:46He returns to a mystery.
21:48Upon arriving on the supply ship,
21:50White found the settlement completely deserted.
21:53The only clue as to the whereabouts of his people
21:55was a strange carving on a post that read Croatoan.
21:58Over a hundred men, women, and children had disappeared without a trace.
22:03There's no evidence that there was any kind of battle.
22:05There's no evidence of bones or bodies
22:08that might indicate an altercation between the colonists
22:12and the indigenous people.
22:13While theories of their fate abound,
22:15none has ever been proven.
22:17Bohemian Grove
22:19Bohemian Grove is a compound
22:21sitting on a massive 2,700-acre slice of California redwood country.
22:25It's a gentleman's club of sorts,
22:27catering to the conservative elites of American society.
22:30Its membership includes almost every Republican president
22:33since Calvin Coolidge,
22:34other politicians,
22:35as well as some of the wealthiest business leaders in modern history.
22:38For over 150 years,
22:41elites have flocked to Bohemian Grove on semi-secret retreats,
22:44which typically take place in mid-July every year,
22:47for about two weeks.
22:48Few know what they do there,
22:50though rumors of their Bacchanalia-esque revelries abound.
22:54What we do know is that there is a reasonable likelihood
22:57that many of the world's historical events
22:59may have been shaped within the confines of the Bohemian Grove.
23:02The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
23:04A garden known throughout the world for its beauty,
23:08a name now synonymous with the disappeared riches of an ancient kingdom.
23:13Today, all but one of the seven wonders of the ancient world
23:16have been lost to time.
23:17Among those that no longer exist,
23:19one has continued to spark controversy.
23:22Historians and archaeologists have long endeavored to find proof
23:25that the Hanging Gardens of Babylon actually existed.
23:28A number of contemporary accounts described a massive collection
23:31of lush plants in the center of the city.
23:33It appeared, they said,
23:34as if there were a green mountain in the center of Sennacherib's palace.
23:38No physical evidence has ever been found,
23:41whether swallowed by the Euphrates
23:42or a myth meant to spread Babylonian glory.
23:45We do have some quite good ground-sensing equipment
23:50that might just help,
23:52but people will rob stones away and put them in their houses.
23:56So anything that was stoned there has been robbed long ago.
24:00The truth of the Hanging Gardens is still a mystery.
24:03The Man in the Iron Mask
24:05Sorry, you've never seen me before. I must shock you.
24:07The story of the Man in the Iron Mask
24:09has been a staple of French culture
24:11since Dumas published his novel in 1850.
24:14While he theorized that the mysterious prisoner
24:16was in fact the identical twin of Louis XIV,
24:19the truth remains a mystery.
24:21What we do know is that at the turn of the 17th century,
24:24there was a masked political prisoner.
24:26Contrary to fiction, his mask wasn't iron,
24:29but rather made of black velvet.
24:31Rumors swirled about his identity.
24:33Voltaire believed that he was a secret royal relative
24:36held captive to keep Louis' crown safe.
24:38Others claimed that he was the son of Oliver Cromwell.
24:41Whomever he was, the masked French prisoner's true identity
24:44is likely to remain a secret forever.
24:47I've waited six years to ask this question.
24:55Why was this done to me?
24:57Genghis Khan's Tomb
24:58Living in the mid-12th century to the early 13th,
25:01Genghis Khan is the infamous instigator of the Mongol Empire,
25:05which was the largest connective empire in history.
25:08He rose from abject poverty to rule most of the known world.
25:16It is claimed that one in every 200 men alive today
25:20is descended from him.
25:22After taking over much of the known world,
25:24Khan died under unknown circumstances
25:26and was returned to his home country of Mongolia.
25:29Legend has it that the funeral procession
25:32killed anyone who witnessed it
25:34in order to keep his final resting place a secret.
25:36If that's true, it certainly worked,
25:38because no one today has any idea of where Genghis Khan is buried.
25:42The Mongolian belief is that if you disturb the tomb of Genghis Khan,
25:45the reason why that area was so forbidden
25:47is because if you disturb this tomb,
25:48that you might cause this curse that'll end the world, right?
25:52Modern scholars believe his tomb
25:53is somewhere around the Burkhan Khaldun mountain,
25:56but research in the area is difficult
25:58owing to restrictions imposed by the Mongolian government.
26:02Finding the tomb of Genghis Khan
26:03would be the greatest archaeological discoveries of our generation.
26:08The potential for riches in Genghis Khan's tomb are extraordinary.
26:13You think of it, it's the world's largest land empire.
26:15The riches that must have been plundered
26:17and the riches that might be inside this tomb boggle the mind.
26:26Many scholars and historians agree that Jesus Christ was a real person
26:30and that he was born sometime around 4 BC.
26:33However, a large chunk of his historical life remains unaccounted for,
26:38as no one knows what he was doing between the ages of 12 and 29.
26:54These are referred to by a variety of names, including his silent years.
26:59Of course, there are many theories.
27:01Some believe he was in Britain, others, India.
27:23But the leading theory is that he was in Galilee,
27:25a region of both Israel and Lebanon,
27:27working as a carpenter under the tutelage of his father Joseph.
27:42Following Jesus' unknown excursions,
27:44he was baptized in Al-Maqtas around 28 AD,
27:48and it is here that his world-changing ministry began.
27:54There's something about submarines and secrecy.
27:57The United States owns various missile submarines that are guided by nuclear power,
28:01including the USS Ohio, Michigan, Florida, and Georgia.
28:20These are known as SSGNs.
28:23The missiles on board these subs have the potential to cause great destruction,
28:27but their whereabouts and activities are generally unknown.
28:38However, they literally surface from time to time.
28:41For example, Michigan appeared in South Korea in 2017,
28:45and Florida took part in Operation Odyssey Dawn in Libya.
28:53On June 28th, 2010, a rare event occurred,
28:56which saw three of four surfacing at once in response to Chinese missile tests.
29:01These four subs have been SSGNs since the 2000s,
29:04but most of their actions and locations have remained a secret.
29:12Freemasons.
29:23For 300 years, conspiracy theories have swirled around the Freemasons,
29:34officially founded in 1717.
29:37Many believe to this day that the not-so-secret Secret Society
29:40has been operating behind the scenes for centuries.
29:43The truth is likely far less sinister.
29:46Publicly, they advertise themselves as a group of civic-minded men,
29:49looking to propagate charity, kindness, and stability throughout the world.
30:06Women are not allowed,
30:08and members must have some kind of belief in a supreme being.
30:11They are famous for secret rituals, handshakes, and lodges.
30:15Regular civilians driven by curiosity have long sought to uncover their secrets,
30:20fueled by rumors that have linked them to everything from the New World Order to aliens.
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30:40Area 51
30:45When it comes to highly classified areas,
30:57it doesn't get more famous than Area 51.
31:00Found in the Nevada desert,
31:01Area 51 is a top-secret military facility with ties to cutting-edge technology.
31:16The place is so secretive that it wasn't officially unveiled by the CIA until 2013,
31:24even though it was very obvious that something was in the desert.
31:28Area 51 is officially known as a military training facility
31:32and supposedly a testing ground for both experimental aircraft and high-tech weaponry.
31:46Owing to its secretive nature,
31:55both trespassing and flying over the site are grossly prohibited and dangerously enforced.
32:00Naturally, this has given rise to a swath of conspiracy theories.
32:04Are aliens inside Area 51?
32:07Perhaps we'll never know.
32:09But because of all this secrecy,
32:11many made up their own minds a long time ago about Area 51 and that's why
32:16it may never lose its extraterrestrial excitement.
32:20Are you a super sleuth with knowledge of some of the world's greatest untold secrets?
32:25Spill the beans in the comments below.
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